- All right, so far everything we've drawn has involved…corner points, which if nothing else, proves how…extremely flexible corner points can be.…But in this movie we're going to move on to smooth points.…Specifically, we're going to draw the one element of…this artwork that's exclusively comprised of smooth points,…and that's the letter G.…And it's a great exercise in drawing…and positioning smooth points inside Illustrator.…All right.…So I'll go ahead and switch over to my…illustration in progress here,…and I'm going to create a new layer for the letters…by Alt, or Option clicking on the little page icon…at the bottom of the Layers Panel.…

And I'll go ahead and call this layer Letters…and I'll change the color to Gold.…And then I'll click Okay.…All right, now what we want to do is…zoom in on this second to last block,…which is the one that contains the letter G,…and we want to be able to see through all the other layers.…And so we have one of two choices,…one is to turn them off,…which is not really the way we want to work…

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3/3/2017

Design and create amazing works of art using the powerful vector-based drawing program—Adobe Illustrator. This comprehensive training is the first in a series of three courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Learn how to create multipage documents with artboards; how to draw anything you can imagine with the Pen, Pencil, and Curvature tools; and how to start adding color to your artwork with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text, and painting digitally, with or without a tablet. Each chapter should leave you with a new set of skills—and a sense of accomplishment.

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